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Mixed showing by Short, Timman
MANILA. June 21: The two play crs who will battle for the right to challenge world chess
champion Garri Kasparov next year have shown mixed
poor form may affect his chances in the match against Timman.
"My results so far are not so bad but of course it could be better." said Timman, who Is the underdog in the upcoming series against Short.
form at the 30th World Chess Olympiad in Manila, reports Reuter
Nigel Short, a guitar-playing Englishman, has lost three games and won twice while Jan Timman, who wanted Lo play foolball for Ajax of Amsterdam, has won three and lost one in nine games.
In comparison, Kasparov has strung up six wins against top ranked opponents, including Ukranian Vassily Ivanchuk and American Gata Kamsky.
"I will play that match against Kasparov," Short declared.
Ht has been a good Olympiad, but my score has not been so good." he added, dismissing suggestions his
Timman shrugged off their less than spectacular play, saying they would have had better results if both players were not preparing for their match next January.
Questions about Short’s current form were fuelled by losses to Georgia's Zurab Azmatparashvili. a second of Kasparov, and Italy's Carlos Palermo Garcia, who is rated well below the Englishmen.
But nobody is dismissing^ Short's chances despite his showing here, especially after he defeated former world champion Anatoly Karpov 6-4 in a 10-game series in the Spanish town of Linares this year to quality for the finals of the candidates series.
v "Nigel Short is going lo win ’ that match," declared Mikhail Podgajee, a second of Karpov and the captain of the Ukraine women’s team in the Olympiad.
Kasparov Is looking forward to a clash with 27-year-old Short rather than with the 40 year-old Dutchman because it would herald a sharp departure from his usual routine of tangling with the older genera Hon of players like Karpov and Timman.
"It would be more Interesting if the challenger Is younger. 1 think it would be more interesting If I play Short In Ix» Angeles," Kasparov said
"1 prefer Short. His victory over Karpov meant progress for chess. Five matches against Karpov Is enough. " he added
Timman, a loner who learned the game by poring over chess books In his father’s library, Is unfazed by the odds.
"When you play chess, you'll receive no help from any other person. It is a (solitary) fight and a struggle," he stated.
Timman also won his own 10-game series against Russia s Artur Yusupov, 6-4 to earn the right to battle Short, and the Dutchan expects a tremendous battle at the World Championships in Los Angeles.
The victor will get 700.000 dollar put up by German computer company for becoming the first Western player lo challenge for the world title since the American legend Bobby Fischer dethroned Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union In 1972.